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Loveden Wapentake

Wapentake is the Danelaw equivalent to the "Hundred" in Anglo-Saxon England and is a political district, a collection of local parishes, the main subdivisions of a county.  The court is likely to have met monthly, at Loveden Hill.  The word Wapentake means "show your weapon". The idea was that all in favour of a resolution would raise their sword etc. to show agreement.

The Domesday Book (1086) lists the following places in Loveden Wapentake:

• Caythorpe
• [Brant] Broughton  
• Foston  
• Holme - this village (just south of Sutton) is now abandoned, but in Saxon times it included Beckingham and Stragglethorpe.
• Fulbeck  
• Leadenham  
• Hougham
• Claypole  
• [Long] Bennington  
• Hough [-on-the-Hill]  
• Carlton [Scroop]  
• Marston  
• Stubton
• Westborough  
• [Dry] Doddington  
• Gelston  
• Brandon
• Frieston  
• Normanton  
• [West] Willoughby  

Other History Pages
Family History

Military History                      Aviation History

Brandon History                     Brandon Houses

Hough History                        Genuki page for Hough

Landowners

Laurel & Hardy and Barkston

Long Bennington Local History Society

Grantham Civic Society

Coddington History Group

Grantham Journal articles:

Harvest at Burtt’s farm in 1961

Prince Charles’ visit to Brandon, 2009